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Received: from Spica.LaserMaster.Com by mercury.colorspan.com (ccMail Link to SMTP R8.00.00) ; Fri, 10 Oct 97 12:16:32 -0600 Return-Path: <lists@slip.net> Received: from ferret (ferret.slip.net [207.171.193.6]) by Spica.LaserMaster.Com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA09048 for <Todd.Madson@lasermaster.com>; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:25:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lists by ferret with local (Exim 1.62 #4) id 0xJieD-0001i0-00; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:14:45 -0700 From: Loopers-Delight-d-request@annihilist.com Subject: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V97 #170 X-Loop: Loopers-Delight-d@annihilist.com X-Mailing-List: <Loopers-Delight-d@annihilist.com> archive/volume97/170 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: Loopers-Delight-d@annihilist.com Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Message-Id: <E0xJieD-0001i0-00@ferret> Sender: SmartList <lists@slip.net> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:14:45 -0700 ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain Loopers-Delight-d Digest Volume 97 : Issue 170 Today's Topics: Re: brainless mail servers from the [ Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> ] Re: Multi-effects Unit [ Paolo Valladolid <pvallado@wayneswo ] Re: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE [ Leonardo Cavallo <LEO@DINONET.IT> ] RE: Multi-effects Unit [ "Sellon, Bob" <bsellon@lexicon.com> ] echoplex, Euro voltage [ "JF. Carter" <Jim.Carter@bristol.ac ] Re: Multi-effects Unit [ Mark@asisoftware.com (Mark Kata) ] Vortex for sale in LA [ Andre LaFosse <altruist@shoko.calar ] Re: echoplex, Euro voltage [ Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> ] Re: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE [ Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> ] RE: Multi-effects Unit [ "T.W. Hartnett" <hartnett.t@apple.c ] RE: Multi-effects Unit [ Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> ] RE: Multi-effects Unit [ "Sellon, Bob" <bsellon@lexicon.com> ] RE: Multi-effects Unit [ Mark@asisoftware.com (Mark Kata) ] RE: Multi-effects Unit [ "Hogan, Greg" <ghogan@lexicon.com> ] RE: Multi-effects Unit [ "Sellon, Bob" <bsellon@lexicon.com> ] JamMan sync misconceptions. [ msottila <msottila@mailbox.syr.edu> ] Fw: [ "cookie" <dc@ak.planet.gen.nz> ] RE: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE [ Michael Peters <MPeters@compuserve. ] Re: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE [ pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk (Michael Pyc ] Re: JamMan sync misconceptions. [ "Robert S. Carter" <rsc4@hhmi.upenn ] Re: JamMan sync misconceptions. [ Steven Dubofsky <skullsaw@gti.net> ] Administrivia: Looper's Delight **************** Please send posts to: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Don't send them to the digest! To subscribe/unsubscribe to the Loopers-Delight digest version, send email with "subscribe" (or "unsubscribe") in both the subject and the body, with no signature files, to: Loopers-Delight-d-request@annihilist.com To subscribe/unsubscribe to the real Loopers-Delight list, send email with "subscribe" (or "unsubscribe") in both the subject and the body, with no signature files, to: Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com Check the web page for archives and lots of other goodies! http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html Your humble list maintainer, Kim Flint kflint@annihilist.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 01:28:00 -0700 From: Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: brainless mail servers from the dawn of time Message-Id: <v03102800b060f3098b81@[207.171.198.59]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Message is undeliverable. hmm, sorry about that mail bounce from hell there. If it happens again, the offending address will be made to suffer appropriately. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:29:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Paolo Valladolid <pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu> To: antonc@earthlink.net Cc: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: Multi-effects Unit Message-Id: <199710090029.RAA03129@waynesworld.ucsd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Some intriguing new toys described in the latest Musician's Friend catalog: Boss ME30 Multiple Effects Pedal ($249.99) Has the usual array of effects, but adds a Phrase Trainer feature that records up to 12 (or 22 - the catalog contradicts itself) seconds of whatever is plugged into a certain input. The apparent intention is to use the Phrase Trainer for learning a lick from, say, a CD. The recorded phrase can be slowed down up to 25% of the original speed without changing pitch. It can also be looped. The built-in expression pedal looks like a nice touch. Of course you don't have to plug in a CD player into the CD input... it could be something else... Digitech Guitar Talker ($239) Plug in a guitar (or whatever you want) and a mic. This is basically a vocoder pedal that lets you select between Vocoder, Talkbox, Darth Vader, and other sounds. One trick I've always wanted to try with a vocoder or similar effect is to use it in conjuction with an Ebow. Paolo Valladolid --------------------------------------------------------------- |Moderator of Digital Guitar Digest, an Internet mailing list |\ |for Music Technology and Stringed Instruments | \ ---------------------------------------------------------------- | \ finger pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu for more info \ | \ http://waynesworld.ucsd.edu/DigitalGuitar/home.html \| ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:37:47 +0200 From: Leonardo Cavallo <LEO@DINONET.IT> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE Message-ID: <19971009123746218.AAA230@Default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Return-Path: <tspauldi@gibson.com> >X-Sender: tspauldi@mail.nash.gibson.com >Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:00:29 -0500 >To: Leonardo Cavallo <LEO@dinonet.it> >From: Tom Spaulding <tspauldi@gibson.com> >Subject: Re: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE > >Leo- >We are working on this. A CE approval is neccessary to do business in >Europe, and we have every intention of getting one within the next 6 >months. Please hang in there, we will be in Europe soon. > >Tom > >At 06:46 AM 10/4/97 -0500, you wrote: >> >>Hi mr Spaulding >> >>When will echoplex be shippedd to europe??? >> >>leo >> >> >> > For euro-loopers This is the reply I received from Mr Spaulding about Europlexes... 6 months of more waiting. I've ordered my unit in early may... it's a long wait! I'm wondering.... why another CE? Had the latest units (non upgrade) this european approval on them? I know some of the old Echoplexes arrived here, through official dealer. Do you need a new CE for just upgrading the same type od product?? It seems odd... maybe Mr Spaulding could give us an answer. ciao leo ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:54:12 -0400 From: "Sellon, Bob" <bsellon@lexicon.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit Message-Id: <215C1D5A0FFDD011B3CC00805FC18C2912D03E@NTSRV2.LEXICON.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Being the system software programmer for the product, I might be slightly (alright, largely) biased but a mid priced multi-effects system to consider is the MPX1 from Lexicon (around $1000). One of the most important features of the MPX1 is the extent and sonic purity of the system's parameter controls. Each program contains 5 generic patches that can map external MIDI controllers, notes, pitch bend, aftertouch, etc, as well as the system's internal controllers to virtually every audio parameter. For internal controllers, the MPX 1 has 2 independent LFOs, 2 ADSRs (attack, decay, sustain, release), 2 envelope generators, a random number generator, an arpeggiator (outputs the arpeggiated notes and makes them available as control sources), an A/B generator and a sample and hold generator. In addition to the 5 patches, most of the internal controller sources have the built in ability to be controlled from all of the sources (MIDI, internal controllers, etc..). The system also has 10 global patches that allow mix and level parameters to always be controlled by a particular source. The potential combinations are amazing. I recently created a program that used a gas pedal plugged into the rear panel to simulatinously control delay input level, feedback and mix to operate a sort of pedal driven loop patch. With the pedal all the way back, the delay mix was set to dry. As you move the pedal forward, the delay starts getting brought in and the input is turned on. As the pedal is moved forward the feedback is increased until, near the very end of the pedal, the feedback is set to 100% and the input is muted effectively putting the system into a loop mode. You end up with a single pedal control that allows you to build loops (2 seconds max), layering into them, fading them, etc.. After playing with that for a while I added a pitch shifter to the output with the pitch patched to the squarewave output of one of the LFOs. The patch was set up to toggle the pitch shift up and down an octave. The rate of the LFO can be either locked to the delay/loop time using the tempo mode or an independent frequency producing some weird, evolving "Welcome to the Machine" kinds of sounds. One of the other things I really like about the MPX 1 is the EQs. There's a whole barrage of EQs available (single, dual, parametric, shelf) including a filter that emulates a moog synth ("SweepFilter"). Again, patching to parameters is unbelieveable. The system uses a seperate processor for reverbs so they always sound excellent and don't use up DSP processing power. There are also a variety of pitch shifters, detuners, chorus algorithms, tremolos, autopanners, etc.. that can be used independently or combined. Another cool thing about the MPX 1 is the audio routing. The system allows you to set the order of the effects and the relative positions of the effects: 2 stereo paths are available so you can send the high frequencies to a detuner while sending the lows to a looper, for instance. One last thing that I really like is a built in tone generator. It's basically a digital oscillator but can be patched to (patch the output level to an envelope and use it to beef up a kick drum). In addition to the "effect" type of things you can do with it, it also makes a nice oscillator for testing. Send the output to your mains and sweep the frequency as a quick frequency response test, check signal flow through your system or as a tuning reference. Anyway, just another multi-effects system to check out if you are in the market. Bob Sellon Software Engineer Lexicon/Stec > ---------- > From: Mark@asisoftware.com[SMTP:Mark@asisoftware.com] > Reply To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 1997 7:50 AM > To: bsellon@lexicon.com > Subject: Multi-effects Unit > > I'm thinking about getting a new multi-effects unit to patch into my > SansAmp PSA-1 preamp and the rest of my looping rig. I'm currently > using a Peavey ProFex Mark 1. > > Any suggestions in the low, medium and high price ranges? > > Thanks, > Mark Kata > Mark@asisoftware.com > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:14:53 +0100 (BST) From: "JF. Carter" <Jim.Carter@bristol.ac.uk> To: loopers-delight@annihilist.com (loopers delight) Subject: echoplex, Euro voltage Message-Id: <199710091414.PAA02378@zeus.bris.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit before I expend anymore time/trouble trying to get my hands on an echoplex, can someone answer the simple but vital question of whether or not the thing will operate on European mains voltage (230V 50Hz). If no-one has direct experience of this could you just tell me whether the power supply is transformer based or switching. I've seen some fine examples of what happens to 220V 60Hz equipment, with a switching powersupply, when you plug it into a 50Hz mains. Transformer stepped down systems alway seem to be fine. thanks for any info. Jim Carter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:23:29 -0400 From: Mark@asisoftware.com (Mark Kata) To: 'Loopers Delight' <loopers-delight@annihilist.com> Subject: Re: Multi-effects Unit Message-ID: <01BCD49D.64E34060@mark.asisoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit No one has mentioned Rocktron's products, such as the Intellifex or the Replifex. How do they compare with the competition? Thanks, Mark Kata Mark@asisoftware.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:11:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre LaFosse <altruist@shoko.calarts.edu> To: loopers-delight@annihilist.com Subject: Vortex for sale in LA Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.971009091011.8869A-100000@shoko.calarts.edu> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I see in today's RECYCLER newspaper that someone is selling a Lexicon Vortex processor in the Los Angeles area for $125 obo. The # is (213) 390-8073. Go get 'em... --Andre ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:19:20 -0700 From: Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: echoplex, Euro voltage Message-Id: <v03102801b062b14ee11c@[207.171.198.39]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi- I designed the power supply in the echoplex, so I guess I can answer the question.... yes, it will work fine on 230V 50hz. There is a switch on the back to change between 115V and 230V. Just make sure you switch it to the correct setting. It's a linear supply with a dual primary on the transformer, so the switch just configures it to step the voltage down appropriately. 50/60 hz will not make a difference. No noisy switcher supplies here! Also, the supply is designed to be very tolerant of voltage variations, so if the voltage sags or whatever, you shouldn't have a problem. In the 115V setting, it will operate down to a mains voltage of about 88V! That also means it will work fine in Japan, where the voltage is 100V if I recall right. hope this answers your question. kim >before I expend anymore time/trouble trying to get my hands on >an echoplex, can someone answer the simple but vital question of >whether or not the thing will operate on European mains voltage >(230V 50Hz). >If no-one has direct experience of this could you just tell me >whether the power supply is transformer based or switching. >I've seen some fine examples of what happens to 220V 60Hz >equipment, with a switching powersupply, when you plug it into >a 50Hz mains. Transformer stepped down systems alway seem to be fine. > >thanks for any info. > >Jim Carter ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:46:32 -0700 From: Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE Message-Id: <v03102802b062b6761757@[207.171.198.39]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 2:37 PM +0200 10/9/97, Leonardo Cavallo wrote: >For euro-loopers > >This is the reply I received from Mr Spaulding about Europlexes... >6 months of more waiting. I've ordered my unit in early may... it's a long >wait! > >I'm wondering.... why another CE? I don't think it's another CE approval. The product was designed well before CE went into effect, and needed changes to meet the new requirements. Those changes cost quite a bit and still need to be implemented, so it never really has passed CE. The units you have seen may have already been there when CE started, or the dealer in question may have been less scrupulous than you think. The design changes were all done, I think they just need to be built with the new design. CE totally hosed a lot of small american manufacturers, by the way. Doing the design changes, getting EMI tests, managing the paperwork, etc. was too expensive, so a lot of them had to stop selling in europe. The bigger companies could afford to make the changes and had the sales volume to make it worthwhile; they just bumped the price way up. That's why synths in europe cost way more than in the US now. I'm not really a fan of deregulation, but you guys could have made it a little easier! kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 97 12:53:57 -0000 From: "T.W. Hartnett" <hartnett.t@apple.com> To: "Looper's Delight" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit Message-Id: <199710091750.KAA31868@scv4.apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Bob, Thanks for the overview of the MPX-1. I currently use an Intellifex LTD, and one of the major selling points was the gapless switching. How quickly does the MPX-1 change patches? Travis Hartnett ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:24:58 -0700 From: Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit Message-Id: <v03102800b062d1bae362@[207.171.198.52]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:53 PM +0000 10/9/97, T.W. Hartnett wrote: >Bob, > >Thanks for the overview of the MPX-1. I currently use an Intellifex LTD, >and one of the major selling points was the gapless switching. How >quickly does the MPX-1 change patches? > >Travis Hartnett That was the reason I bought an intellifex over an LXP-15 years ago. I'd be interested in the patch switching time, too. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:46:20 -0400 From: "Sellon, Bob" <bsellon@lexicon.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit Message-Id: <215C1D5A0FFDD011B3CC00805FC18C2912D067@NTSRV2.LEXICON.COM> Content-Type: text/plain Travis, The program load time on the MPX 1 varies from about 100ms to about 400ms depending on the complexity of the program being loaded. Bob Sellon Lexicon/Stec > ---------- > From: T.W. Hartnett[SMTP:hartnett.t@apple.com] > Reply To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 2:16 PM > To: bsellon@lexicon.com > Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit > > Bob, > > Thanks for the overview of the MPX-1. I currently use an Intellifex > LTD, > and one of the major selling points was the gapless switching. How > quickly does the MPX-1 change patches? > > Travis Hartnett > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:01:07 -0400 From: Mark@asisoftware.com (Mark Kata) To: "'Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit Message-ID: <01BCD4C4.2D065700@mark.asisoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is the input's signal silenced during the loading time? Mark Kata Mark@asisoftware.com ---------- From: Sellon, Bob[SMTP:bsellon@lexicon.com] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 2:46 PM To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit Travis, The program load time on the MPX 1 varies from about 100ms to about 400ms depending on the complexity of the program being loaded. Bob Sellon Lexicon/Stec > ---------- > From: T.W. Hartnett[SMTP:hartnett.t@apple.com] > Reply To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 2:16 PM > To: bsellon@lexicon.com > Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit > > Bob, > > Thanks for the overview of the MPX-1. I currently use an Intellifex > LTD, > and one of the major selling points was the gapless switching. How > quickly does the MPX-1 change patches? > > Travis Hartnett > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:28:49 -0400 From: "Hogan, Greg" <ghogan@lexicon.com> To: "'Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit Message-Id: <215C1D5A0FFDD011B3CC00805FC18C29131F41@NTSRV2.LEXICON.COM> Content-Type: text/plain Dry signal can be passed through unchanged during program changes in the MPX 1. The same is true for the LXP15 V2.00 software. The LXP15 V1.31 software did mute the entire signal during program changes. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is anything that I can do for you. Best regards, Greg hogan Lexicon customer Service Phone 781-280-0372 FAX 617-280-0499 email: ghogan@lexicon.com > ---------- > From: Mark@asisoftware.com[SMTP:Mark@asisoftware.com] > Reply To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 3:02 PM > To: GHogan@lexicon.com > Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit > > Is the input's signal silenced during the loading time? > > Mark Kata > Mark@asisoftware.com > > ---------- > From: Sellon, Bob[SMTP:bsellon@lexicon.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 2:46 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit > > Travis, > The program load time on the MPX 1 varies from about 100ms to about > 400ms depending on the complexity of the program being loaded. > > Bob Sellon > Lexicon/Stec > > > ---------- > > From: T.W. Hartnett[SMTP:hartnett.t@apple.com] > > Reply To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 2:16 PM > > To: bsellon@lexicon.com > > Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit > > > > Bob, > > > > Thanks for the overview of the MPX-1. I currently use an Intellifex > > LTD, > > and one of the major selling points was the gapless switching. How > > quickly does the MPX-1 change patches? > > > > Travis Hartnett > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:38:09 -0400 From: "Sellon, Bob" <bsellon@lexicon.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit Message-Id: <215C1D5A0FFDD011B3CC00805FC18C2912D06F@NTSRV2.LEXICON.COM> Content-Type: text/plain It's selectable: Mute or bypass. The newest version of the software (V1.10) which accompanies the new Remote Footcontroller (MPX R1) allows the signal level during the bypass be adjusted. Bob Sellon Lexicon/Stec > ---------- > From: Mark@asisoftware.com[SMTP:Mark@asisoftware.com] > Reply To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 3:02 PM > To: bsellon@lexicon.com > Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit > > Is the input's signal silenced during the loading time? > > Mark Kata > Mark@asisoftware.com > > ---------- > From: Sellon, Bob[SMTP:bsellon@lexicon.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 2:46 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit > > Travis, > The program load time on the MPX 1 varies from about 100ms to about > 400ms depending on the complexity of the program being loaded. > > Bob Sellon > Lexicon/Stec > > > ---------- > > From: T.W. Hartnett[SMTP:hartnett.t@apple.com] > > Reply To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 1997 2:16 PM > > To: bsellon@lexicon.com > > Subject: RE: Multi-effects Unit > > > > Bob, > > > > Thanks for the overview of the MPX-1. I currently use an Intellifex > > LTD, > > and one of the major selling points was the gapless switching. How > > quickly does the MPX-1 change patches? > > > > Travis Hartnett > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 20:17:38 -0400 From: msottila <msottila@mailbox.syr.edu> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: JamMan sync misconceptions. Message-ID: <343D741D.3200@mailbox.syr.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all. A few weeks ago, I sent a message asking if I were going to have trouble syncing 2 JamMans from the MIDI clock of the sequencer of a Ensonic TS-10. I forgot who responded, but I was told I was going to have problems daisy chaining the 2 JamMans. The work around was to sync all three devices to a single MIDI clock source with a MIDI splitter. I purchesed a splitter and tried sending MIDI clock to both the JamMen from the sequencer and had really bad delay problems. I had a show the next day and I couldn't find any cheap solution for a MIDI clock generating device. What to do, you might ask. Well our newest member(owner of JamMan #2), with a very rudimentry knowledge of MIDI, suggested hooking up the devices as I had originally envisioned. MIDI out of the sequencer to the in of my JamMan, MIDI out of my JamMan into the in of his. With the advise I had gotten, it sounded implausable, but what the hell? It was worth a try. Anyway, you've probably guessed the end of this one already. It worked perfectly, as I originally predicted it would. No delay problems what so ever. The show was a sucess and now I'm rich and famous. Just kidding, but the show went well and was void of any syncing problems. What were you talking about when you told me to split the MIDI signal? Could it have been that you thought that I wanted both units to start looping at the same time? I didn't. Both machines are autonamous, used by different members, they just need to have access to the same MIDI clock. So if anyone was put off by thinking that syncing two JamMen to a single MIDI clock was a problem, as I did, forget it. It works great! Happy looping. (anyone want to buy a very slightly used MIDI splitter?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:19:29 +1300 From: "cookie" <dc@ak.planet.gen.nz> To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Subject: Fw: Message-Id: <199710100019.MAA24876@planet.ak.planet.gen.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ---------- > From: cookie <dc@pl.net> > To: Loopers-Delight@annihilst.com > Subject: > Date: Friday, October 10, 1997 1:16 PM > > hey there ! i made my first loops at the age of seven or eight, on an > old ampex > machine.... this was about 27/28 years ago !! sadly i've none of that > now.. :( > > ever tried making _really_ long tape loops ? i used to do it by putting > cotton-reels > on pencils stuck into anything that would hold them up - all round the room > !!! > > and with the old sound-on-sound function switched in, you could have them > constantly > eveolving ! ( great way to get an atmosphere going ! ) > > bye now, > > cookie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 01:56:18 -0400 From: Michael Peters <MPeters@compuserve.com> To: "'INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Subject: RE: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE Message-ID: <199710100156_MC2-236D-5656@compuserve.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline >I'm wondering.... why another CE? = >Had the latest units (non upgrade) this european approval on them? = I don't think they had a CE stamp. They were imported to Europe when the = CE stamp was not required yet. = ___________ Michael Peters = http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters HOP - Fractals in Motion ..."the only screen saver you'll ever want" http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters/hop.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:18:48 +0100 From: pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk (Michael Pycraft Hughes, PhD) To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE Message-Id: <16181.199710101018@rank-serv.elec.gla.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kim: >CE totally hosed a lot of small american manufacturers, by the way. Doing >the design changes, getting EMI tests, managing the paperwork, etc. was >too >expensive, so a lot of them had to stop selling in europe. Serves ya right for making substandard gear! Ha! > The bigger companies could afford to make the changes and had the sales >volume > to make it worthwhile; they just bumped the price way up. I'm amazed. Aren't there decent standards held in the States? > That's why synths in europe cost way more than in the US now. Nah, that's just taxes and stuff. Strats cost more here than there. Going strat price is over $1000 right now. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:28:07 +0000 From: "Robert S. Carter" <rsc4@hhmi.upenn.edu> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: JamMan sync misconceptions. Message-ID: <343E1178.6B71@hhmi.upenn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit msottila wrote: > > Hello all. > > A few weeks ago, I sent a message asking if I were going to have trouble > syncing 2 JamMans from the MIDI clock of the sequencer of a Ensonic > TS-10. I > Well our newest member(owner of JamMan #2), with a very rudimentry > knowledge of MIDI, suggested hooking up the devices as I had originally > envisioned. MIDI out of the sequencer to the in of my JamMan, MIDI out > of my JamMan into the in of his. With the advise I had gotten, it > sounded implausable, but what the hell? It was worth a try. > > Anyway, you've probably guessed the end of this one already. It worked > perfectly, as I originally predicted it would. No delay problems what > so ever. > > I'm sorry, I just don't understand this. In the MIDI implementation chart in the JamMAn manual it clearly states that all MIDI data with the exception of MIDI clock is echoed to the JamMAn's MIDI out. I also use sequencers and other devices to generate mIDI clock and my experience is that the clock will NOT go thru my JamMan. Because I have other devices that also will not echo MIDI clock that need to be simultaneously slaved I have resorted to using pMIDI patchbays as splitters. I have used both a MX8 and a yamaha MEP4 with satisfactory resulsts. BOB. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:41:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Dubofsky <skullsaw@gti.net> To: "Robert S. Carter" <rsc4@hhmi.upenn.edu> cc: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: JamMan sync misconceptions. Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.971010114013.18140A-100000@apollo.gti.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > > I'm sorry, I just don't understand this. In the MIDI implementation > chart in the JamMAn manual it clearly states that all MIDI data with > the exception of MIDI clock is echoed to the JamMAn's MIDI out. I also > use sequencers and other devices to generate mIDI clock and my > experience is that the clock will NOT go thru my JamMan. Because I have > other devices that also will not echo MIDI clock that need to be > simultaneously slaved I have resorted to using pMIDI patchbays as > splitters. I have used both a MX8 and a yamaha MEP4 with satisfactory > resulsts. Are you sure the JMs out isn't a switchable thru/out? A lot of gear that skimps on the midi connectors use this configuration including Boss abd Alesis multi effctors. steve d Skullsaw may cause irritation and watering of the eyes. DO NOT use Skullsaw if pregnant. Studies show Skullsaw may be habit forming. Consult your physician. http://www.gti.net/skullsaw -------------------------------- End of Loopers-Delight-d Digest V97 Issue #170 **********************************************